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- 01 Feb 1997
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Doing It Your Way
wave of new business ventures in areas such as microcomputers, software programs, and hardware-related peripheral equipment that has changed the world forever. "During the early '80s, I'd get a lot of View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
1960s—but its most influential product might just be its model of entrepreneurship: disruptive, asset-light and capital-intensive businesses with a scale-at-all-cost mentality and no fear of failure. But now something is threatening to... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
keep that history, and that original mission, in focus. “David recognized early on that the web was absolutely transforming the way the media business in general functioned,” says James Bennet, the Atlantic’s editor in chief and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
amount they paid for newspapers to 25¢ a 100, I retired from the business. I returned to the Business School as a student in 1962. Of course, Harvard Way Extension was long gone by then. So it was a real thrill to see the picture in the... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
hard—urgent calls for a long-overdue racial reckoning are inspiring innovative approaches to exposing and ending structural inequities in business and society. Two new ventures led by HBS alumni are leveraging the power of philanthropy in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
A Wider Net
Miami at age 15 from India, organized sports weren’t an easy option. “I had to work, because my family came here as immigrants with nothing,” he says. “So my day job was high school, and my evening job was at the Publix supermarket.”... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
New Ways to Stay Connected
person—a better friend, parent, work colleague, boss, wife, sister, and family member. They have impacted all facets of my life.” Geraldine Alias (MBA 2007) The Boardroom The Boardroom is the capstone experience for the first year of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
found myself thinking that unlike a career in applied math, where most of the work is pretty esoteric, if I could really make a breakthrough in economics, I might affect an awful lot of people. So, much to the chagrin of both my family... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
the HBS Initiative on Social Enterprise, which focuses its teaching, research, and collaborative efforts on nonprofit organizations, other private social-purpose enterprises, and the role of business leadership in the social sector. In... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
New Releases
The Intellectual Venture Capitalist(Harvard Business School Press) In the ninety-year history of Harvard Business School, John McArthur's fifteen-year tenure as Dean is exceeded only by Wallace B. Donham's... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
grip on corporate America. Starting salaries averaged $22,500 in 1977. Neckties were wider, and the corporate uniform was dark business suits for men and conservative skirts and jackets for women. Saving time for View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 02 Oct 2017
- News
Radical Generosity for the Real World
and her family spoke about. Today though, she talks about money all the time. She teaches stewardship at her church. Recently co-authored the book Love Let Go: Radical Generosity for the Real World, which was released in March. In this... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
Now, the former Air Force officer is drawing on his military, White House, State Department, and humanitarian aid experience as cofounder and CEO of Executives Without Borders, an organization that matches business leaders who volunteer... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
local produce available to locals, and to revitalize the town’s Main Street, a modest collection of struggling businesses. Reade’s “retirement” after a successful career in the investment business was gradual and accidental. Seeking a... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
electronics, internet services, health care. And they are the caregivers of their families and their communities, and so it's a huge opportunity that has yet to really be tapped in terms of really creating IP and products that really... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
dominance of corporate icons such as Heinz, Coca-Cola, General Motors, NCR, and Procter & Gamble. Chapters on the 20th century consider how mass production, mass media, and technology have influenced the way goods are marketed and sold. Friedman, who is coeditor of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
Strategist: Be the Leader Your Business Needs (2012). Has your own definition of career success evolved over the years? Cynthia Montgomery Throughout my adult life—and the early years of raising children—I've believed that with careful... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
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Action Plan: Role-Play
investigator trying to suss out other employees who are guilty of committing fraud, theft, or some other workplace misconduct. Before her career path took a turn from the business world to private investigation, Carson had no prior... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
business was doing. I walked into the room and there is Sergey Brin, one of the founders, standing on an elliptical trainer in one corner of the room wearing toe shoes and pedaling away. There is Eric Schmidt, who was CEO at the time, in... View Details
- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
inventory losses by alerting retailers when items are given free-of-charge to friends and family by purposely not being scanned by a clerk (called “sweethearting”), when barcodes are covered, when items are left in a shopping cart, or... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley